Love playing Street Fighter V? Think you've got the skills to become an SFV champion? Then sign up for the MyFGC Community Cup 2019. It's a 2v2 tournament so make sure you got a buddy with you. Here are the details for the tournament: Date: 7 September to 8 September 2019 Venue: Setia Spice Arena, Penang Total prize

It's going to be the final stretch of the ongoing Neo Geo World Tour 2 tournament where SNK hosts its own The King of Fighters tournament series with some SNK retro competition in the mix. Fans of KOF XIV and KOF '98 should do well to pay attention to see the world's finest go 3v3 with their team of choice. The Global

Platform: PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Action RPG With Fever Mode & Cute Heads Bishi Bashi. Diablo III on Normal. Tekken 7 with casuals. Most Marvel vs. Capcom games against level 1 AIs. These are the kinds of experiences where you can turn your brain off for a bit and let your muscle memory and instinct take ov

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is an anomaly of sorts: it's one of the few successful video game movie adaptations out there. And if you've seen our previous feature, there are a ton of stinkers and mediocre fares out there. Here's a list of directors and screenwriters talking about why it's hard to make a great video

The Malaysian Esports Selection 2019 Grand Finals for the 2019 SEA Games have concluded. We have our potential representatives for Team Malaysia in the upcoming Philippines SEA Games 2019. These players will be one step closer to representing Malaysia for the esports titles such as Starcraft II, Dota 2, Arena of Val

There's a ton of grassroots-level and high-level fighting game goodness happening this weekend, especially if you're keeping track of the Tekken World Tour. If you happen to be in Singapore this weekend, good for you! Head down to Singtel Recreation Club @ Comcentre at 31 Exeter Road. If not, don't worry: you can tune

Razer is one of the brands you need no introduction of, so it's a great honour to announce that Razer has unveiled its intention to support the national esports team for the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2019. How? By providing world-class training and tournament-grade gear for the Malaysian team. The tournament gear

2011: Eons after suffering through the many 3D Mortal Kombat games where fighters can switch between stances and pull off custom Fatalities, I was incredibly skeptical about the Mortal Kombat reboot. This was my time at GameSpot, so I was on high alert as to whether Ed Boon and his then-new studio can recapture the glo

Did you know that music accounts for a huge percentage in your video game experience? I mean, imagine fighting the dragons in Skyrim without a piece of background music, it's awkward and wouldn't deliver the same goosebump-inducing moment. So it's understandable that many of the sounds and music in video games have a

Between sound-deafening cheers as players mounted their comeback and the persistent clicking of buttons on an arcade stick, FV x SEA Major 2019 demonstrated some great levels of hype from some of the most avid fighting game fans in Malaysia. Taking place over last weekend from 23 - 24 March at Lightbox, we got to see

This story is still developing... When you have one of the first Capcom Pro Tour tournaments in Asia happening early this year, you're going to stir a hornet's nest in the Street Fighter V competitive scene. In this case, it's the Japanese players who want those sweet, sweet CPT League points. And it's pretty evident

Fighting game fans from all over Southeast Asia: do you want to fight the best of the best in games like Street Fighter V and Tekken 7? Then you should register and pop by for the FV Cup x SEA Major 2019 Malaysia tournament for your fighting game jollies. The event will take place at 23 and 24 March at Lightbox. Here

Update: Schedule added.  We've been asking the same question since last year: When is Malaysia stepping up their game for the upcoming esports medal games in the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines? We now have the answer to that, as the official channel for recruitment and registration has recently opened. The 'Mal

Singtel has announced a significant move forward in the progress towards a better future for esports in Southeast Asia by revealing that they will be officially providing sponsorship for the Singapore's SEA Games 2019 esports team. In a deal with the Singapore Esports Association (SGEA), the sponsorship includes fundi

Globe Telecom has launched its very first esports center (ESC) in the Philippines. The Globe ESC is located at Play Nation in UP Town Center, Quezon City, where it will bring local communities of gamers together. The goal of the Globe's Games and Esports program is to strengthen the grassroots level of esports in the

Platform(s): PS4, PC, Xbox One Genre: 3D Fighting Game With Unlockable Fan Service & "Natural Motion" Trust Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja to pull a bait-and-switch on the Western media. Just when they're about to change their ways with a dressed-up Kasumi with dirt on her face, they basically went back to their old wa

Fighting game ladies; perhaps one of video games’ most divided contribution to the medium since microtransactions. On one hand, they’re cool and confident females capable of kicking ass with the best of them. On the other, their dress sense leaves a lot to be desired. It’s hard to take them se

The biggest fighting game tournament in the world just announced its lineup today. Here it is: Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition Dragon Ball FighterZ Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tekken 7 Blazblue Cross Tag Battle Under Night: In-Birth SoulCalibur 6 Mortal Kombat 11 Samurai Shodown While the 7 other games are

Unlike Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur 6, this year's outsiders and away team players were no match for Japan's top Street Fighter 5 players. The top 8 was filled with 6 Japanese players, 1 US player (Punk), and 1 Taiwanese player (OilKing). Fans and players hoping for a turnaround from the US and Taiwanese representative dur

The last time Southeast Asia got Evo gold in fighting games was back in Evo 2013 courtesy of Xian. Fast forward to Evo Japan 2019, and we have two sleeping dragons in the Southeast Asian SoulCalibur scene tearing it up: Singapore's Jovian "Shen Chan" Chan and Raymus "Shen Yuan" Chang Yin Yuan. After some news about so